Welcome to Insight Awards

Prestigious Industry Award Program Continues to Recognize Excellence
in Electronics and Semiconductor Design and Innovation

About Us

The 2013 Insight Awards, presented by TechInsights, will showcase the best engineering innovations in the electronics and semiconductor technology. This year's Insight Awards features a renewed focus on categories that capture the evolving landscape of the semiconductor and electronics industries, while continuing to recognize the technical contributions of designers and engineers in these industries.

Media coverage

Many nominees will be featured in electronic publications such as EE Times and EDN. For over thirty years, EE Times and EDN have been covering the evolving electronics industry. They break the stories that shape your business, describe technology benefits and trade-offs with thoughtful analysis and compelling opinion. For more than 150,000 design and development engineers and technical managers, EE Times and EDN are a "must read" for the electronics and semiconductor industry. Other publications that have worked to help us promote the winners of the Insight Awards include: World IP Review, TechWeb, Information Week, and Wall Street Journal.

Why participate?

Don't miss out on your company's chance to be recognized as a engineering leader in the industry. Join previous winners like Samsung, Toshiba, Qualcomm, Marvell, Texas Instruments, Motorola, Micron, Intel, and many more.

Receive valuable third party validation of your engineering designs

Give recognition to your engineering and design teams

Receive a complimentary TechInsights engineering report

Be featured in editorial coverage and press releases

Participate in the awards ceremony

Participate in many more co-marketing opportunities

Insight Awards Category Criteria

Most Innovative Logic Process

TechInsights has always been at the forefront of understanding and analyzing the latest in logic process technology. The 2013 Insight Awards recognizes the constant innovation in this field with the Most Innovative Logic Process category. This award is given to the semiconductor design that has best implemented a new process technology deemed to be the most innovative against its fellow nominees.

The finalists for this category feature entrants to the Insight Awards that introduced new process nodes, new manufacturing techniques and new material structures. The products to be chosen will be selected for the level of innovation they represent.

Most Innovative Memory Device

One of the first categories to be created for the Insight Awards was Most Innovative Memory Device. Now in the 2013 Insight Awards, memory technology has reached unparalleled heights of innovation. This award is given to the memory product (SSD, semiconductor or memory-based device) that is deemed to be the most innovative against its fellow nominees.

The nominees in this category will be evaluated for:

- Memory cell design (e.g. storage capacity on DRAM)

- Memory density and linewidth

- Access speeds

- Advanced packaging technologies

- Advanced process technologies

- I/O architecture; data path innovations

- Novelty: ferroelectric, PCM, 1T-SRAM, etc.

- Market share, market presence

- Patent coverage on design

Most Innovation Processor / System-on-Chip (Soc)

As more electronics become portable and consumers demand increases for more functionality from these electronics, the processors that drive these devices take on a greater importance. Mobile and application processors/SoCs usage has grown at an exponential rate and that rate of growth is only matched by the advances in technology that continues to occur. This award aims to recognize the advancements these components represent.

The nominees in this category will be evaluated for:

- Device integration: number of cores, number of GPUs, wireless radio technologies, memory

- Market share, market presence. Is processor used in high profile devices?

- Patent coverage on design

- Each will have specific judging criteria

Semiconductor of the Year

This award is presented to the semiconductor that is determined to be the most innovative and technologically elegant component of 2012. This device will be selected amongst all semiconductor nominees from other categories, as well as semiconductors that did not fall into these specific categories. This award will be presented primarily on what TechInsights' judges deem as the component with the largest impact on the entire semiconductor industry and largest potential to transform the industry.

Companies nominated for this category will be asked to explain the development process of their device including what steps they took along their path to innovation.

Nomination Forms

To enter your nomination for the 2013 Insight Awards, please download the necessary form. Once you have completed the form, please submit it to insightawards@techinsights.com

All nomination forms are due by March 29, 2013. If your product release date falls outside of this deadline, please contact us. Note that any request for a deadline extension will be evaluated by the judging committee.

Forms

Rules

Participation in the Insight Awards involves the exchange of technical and business information relating to your nominated device. Information obtained by TechInsights from participating companies will be used for the purpose of validating technical claims of your nominated product.

TechInsights may decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, and/or analyze the devices provided by the Participant for the generation of analysis reports. TechInsights will not perform analysis in the investigation of third party patent claims on devices supplied by the Participant. TechInsights reserves the right to lift such restrictions on any analysis performed once the device becomes commercially available. We reserve the right to promote and market all nominated and winning devices with respect to their involvement with the Insight Awards.

Finalists

The category finalists will be announced in Q1 2013. Stay tuned for updates.